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| | Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Each constituency is a sub-division of a region, the additional members system is designed to produce proportional representation for each region, and the total number of MSPs elected to the parliament is 129. |
 | | Until the United Kingdom general election of 2005 the first past the post constituencies were the same as for the House of Commons (United Kingdom Parliament, Westminster) (apart from Orkney and Shetland, which were separate constituencies at Holyrood, but not at Westminster). |
 | | Newer Westminster constituencies also straddle council area boundaries but, in Westminster representation, there is a clear sense of council areas being grouped into larger areas: the East Ayrshire council area, North Ayrshire council area and South Ayrshire council area, for example, are treated as a single Ayrshire area. |
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